Chick feeder



A. E. HAMPTON ET AL CHICK FEEDER Filed Sept. 18. 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Abi 1121114, 22?? and);

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UNITED STATES PATENTv OFFICE.

ABIJ'AH E. HAMPTON, OF PITTSTCWN, AND CHARLES S. MARSHALL, OF BAPTISTOWN,

NEW JERSEY.

CHICK FEEDER.

Application filed September 18, 1922. Serial No. 588,757.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ABIJAII E. HAMP- TON and CHARLns'S. MARSHALL, citizens of the United States, residing at Pittstown, county of Hunterdon, and State of New Jersey, and Baptistown, county of Hunterdon, and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in ing Chick Feeders, specification.

This invention relates to poultry feeders and more particularly to a trough for feedin chicks orjother young fowls.

e object of the invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive device of the above character which is constructed with a view to preventing the; chicks from scattering the feed as well as avoiding contamination of the food from actions of the fowl.

This object, and other advantageous ends which will be described hereinafter, we attain in the following manner, reference beof which the following is a which- 4 .Figure 1 is a top plan view of the improved chick feeder,

Figure 2 is a side view,

Figure 3 is an end elevation,

Figure 4 is a vertical sectional view taken on the line 4-4 of Fi re 1, and

Fi re 5 is a vertical longitudinal sectiona view taken on the line 5-5 of Fig ure 3.

In the drawings, the chick feeder is shown consisting of a trough 10, preferably of galvanized sheet metal, bent to provide oppositely disposed sides 11 disposed in angular relation to each other 'to cave the trough open at the top. The 0 posite edges of the sides are turned inward y and downwardly as shown at 12.

TroughlOis made up of a plate and has its ends slit longitudinally a short distance as indicated at 13 and the end portions thus produced are angularly bent to form flanges 14. Upright plates 15 are disposed against and close the ends of the trough and flanges 14 are soldered or otherwise secured to the inner faces of the plates. The plates have bottom pads 16 for support'and stiflening, and it will be noted that the bottom of the trough is spaced from bottom pads 16.

' A erch 17, consisting of a rectangular bar of wood, has headed pins or nails 18 at its ends and is pivotally mounted in upright mounted had to the accompanying drawings in plates 15. The length of the bar is slightly less than the distance between the plates.

Openings 19 slightly larger than the heads of pins 18 are provided in the plates 15 near the upper edges directly over trough 10 to receive pins 18 whereby the bar may be removed when placing feed in the trough. Plates 15.are also preferably provided with oppositely sloping edges 20.

Bar 17 is preferably so balanced and that one of its corners is disposed upward and its sides slope downward over sides 11 of trough 10. When a chick attempts to hop into the trough or upon the perch or bar 17 and lands thereon, it will be thrown backward away from the trough or on the opposite side, due to the turning of the bar, thus preventing the chicks from jumping into the feed and avoiding contamination thereof and dangers incident thereto. Flanges 12 serve to catch the surplus feed held between the bills of. the fowl and thus prevent scattering of the feed. All of the parts are preferably of sheet material, such as galvanized sheet iron, and while I have described the bar as being of wood, it may be of any other suitable material, and it may be mounted on or offcenter. The latter would normally cause unbalancing to precipitate a fowl.

While we have described our invention as taking a particular form, it will be understood that the various parts of our invention may be chan ed without departing from the spirit thereo and hence we do not limit ourselves to the recise construction set forth, but consider t at we are at liberty to makesuch changes and alterations as fairly come within the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A chick feeder comprising a trough; plates secured to the ends of the trough; an angular bar of less length than the distance between and extending above the plates, and pivot pins extending from the ends of the bar, supported by the plates and held against transverse movement relative thereto but freely movable upwardly therefrom.

2. A chick feeder comprising a trough; plates secured to the ends of the trough and provided with openings near their upper edges; a bar, and headed pins in the ends of the bar and passing through the openings,

the heads of the pins being of smaller di-"less length than the distance between the l mension than the openings whereby the bar plates and the heads of the pins of less dimay be removed from the plates. mension than the openings whereby the bar 3. A chick feeder comprising a trough; may be removed from the plates. plates secured to the ends of the trough and In testimony whereof we have signed our having parts provided with openings exnames to this specification. tending above the trough; a rectangular bar, and headed pins in the ends of the bar pass- ABIJ AH E. HAMPTON. ing through the openings, the bar being of CHARLES S. MARSHALL. 

